Donald Trump‘s plan to forcibly displace Gazans so the United States can “own” the Gaza strip amounts to “ethnic cleansing” and is against international law, a United Nations expert said.
The president on Tuesday announced, in a press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip. We’ll do a job with it, too. We’ll own it.” Trump has said that he wants to transform Gaza into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
“Basically the United States would view it as a real estate transaction where we’ll be an investor in that part of the world,” Trump said Friday. In order to accomplish this, Trump…